Five foreigners held for online fraud in Gurugram

GURUGRAM: The Faridabad police on Saturday arrested seven persons, including five foreign nationals, for allegedly duping people after befriending them on a social networking site.

The suspects would befriend people on Facebook and then convince them to transfer money on the pretext of sending them high-value gifts and foreign currency, said the police.

The police said they believe that with the arrests they have solved more than 100 such fraud cases.

According to the police, they received a complaint from a local resident on July 23 alleging that he has been duped of ₹35,500.

The Faridabad police commissioner, OP Singh, said that since he took charge he has taken up pending cases and have involved the cyber crime cell.

“The gang members created fake social media profiles and befriended people by posing as women. They would tell the victims that they were sending a precious gift as a token of friendship or would propose them for marriage and stage drama that they are stuck at airport and make calls posing as customs officers and duped people on pretext of releasing gifts. They used to ask victims to pay custom duty and processing fees,” he said.

The suspects were identified as Williams Michael of Liberia, Promise Ebere Okoli, Halimat Mohammed, Okeke Nnabugo and Kenechukwi Okanta, all four from Nigeria. Besides, two persons from Ballabhgarh -Anurag Singh and Nishant -were also arrested.

All the suspects were arrested from a rented house in Faridabad and were taken on four days’ police remand on Saturday after being produced before the court, said the police.

NEW DELHI: The Delhi police have booked a Jawaharlal Nehru University research scholar for allegedly trying to “provoke riots and breach of peace” through his tweets against Indian Army.

In the FIR registered at Kapashera police station on July 8, Sajid Bin Sayed has been booked under IPC section 153 (provocation with intent to cause a riot) and 504 (intentionally insulting with intent to provoke breach of the peace).

When contacted, Sajid said he was not aware of the case. “I got to know about the FIR through media reports. Criticising policies is a part of democracy,” said the final-year PHD student.